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The authors dedicated this issue "with love, from the shark people" to Chloē Montana Amsden.

This is the second of three occasions that Katherine Pulaski appeared on the cover of a Star Trek comic, and is one of only a handful of issues that she appears in. Her previous cover appearance was on TNGcomic: "Return to Raimon", which was also drawn by this issue's cover artist J.K. Moore. Her next appearance was 21 years later on "Flesh and Stone" by IDW Publishing.

The TNG ongoing series had storylines that were chronologically sequential, running from TNG's second season until TNGmovie: Generations. This issue represents one of three occasions where that sequence was broken, with this story taking place shortly before the first issue of the series, at the beginning of TNG's second season. At this point in the series, the comics were concurrent with the sixth season of TNG. The previous out-of-sequence issues were TNGcomic: "Forbidden Fruit", which took place at the beginning of the third season while the comic was entering the fourth season, and TNGcomic: "Honor Bound!", which took place prior to Wesley's departure while the series was entering the fifth season. Not coincidentally, all three non-sequential issues were written by guest writers.

This was Peter Krause's final issue as regular series penciller. Although several other artists were rotated in during biweekly release changes and one-shot storylines, Krause provided pencil art for over two years, making him the most prolific penciller of the TNG series. Krause would return later in the series to do covers for a four-issue storyline.